-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Ellis Sent: 16 April 2013 11:50
To: James John Bell Cc: [log in to unmask]
Subject: RE: Adinkras, symbols of power, reality and sacred geometry
James,
Thanks for the link - I've now located the "new symbol of power".
While both Gates's adinkras and the new power symbol, along with sacred geometrical figures, all belong to the set
{symbols having meanings to some people/subcultures | present or past, and future},
...it could be interesting to explore the taxonomy of this, very broad, set.
Best regards – Paul
-----Original Message-----
From: James John Bell [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 16 April 2013 09:04 To: Paul Ellis
Subject: Re: Adinkras, symbols of power, reality and sacred geometry
Paul,
I should have been more specific, it's the new power symbol which became a
social media phenomena here in the US for marriage equality, here is a link
to both the story about the power of the symbol and the image itself, which
generally is seen as being a stylized equal sign:
The graphic design of this symbol appears to reflect that of the adinkras on
the PhysicsWorld "Symbols of Power" cover:
Symbols of Power" full journal article by Dr. S. James Gates, Jr. -
http://www.onbeing.org/sites/onbeing.org/files/gates-symbolsofpower.pdf
I'm fairly certain it wasn't consciously based on the symbol of power, but
it does resemble it, sort of like how the vesica piscis turns up in certain
powerful symbols throughout history, anyway got me curious about adinkras
connection to sacred geometry concepts if any.
Thanks for your response, much appreciated,
James
On 4/16/13 12:39 AM, "Paul Ellis" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear James John Bell
>
> If the attached file does NOT display what you refer to as 'the viral
> "marriage equality" power symbol', then can you please give me a URL for it.
> I've tried to find it on youtube, but other than the attached image I only get
> strings of tweets.
>
> If it IS the symbol you refer to, then I see no relation to adinkras - for one
> thing it contains an unlinked image within a circle, whereas the elements of
> Gates's adinkras are all linked (technically, directed and undirected graphs
> that occur widely in mathematics, particularly as "graph theory" and
> representations of e.g. group-theoretical diagrams representing, among others,
> symmetries).
>
> Moreover, the figure on the cover of his physics World article is a relatively
> simple diagram which, in addition to encoding a linguistic meaning (but not
> necessarily a 1:1 encoding) could be topologically equivalent to any number of
> doodles. While that image might have some relationship (accidental or
> otherwise) to sacred geometries, any such coincidence between Gates's adinkras
> and sacred geometies is, in my opinion, most likely to be exactly that -
> coincidental.
>
> If anyone can demon-strate closer relationships between Gates's adinkras and
> sacred geometry (Jill P-S?) I could be fascinated.
>
> Best regards Paul Ellis
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> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 03:28:13 -0700
> From: James John Bell <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Adinkras, symbols of power, reality and sacred geometry
>
> The Physics World magazine "Symbols of Power - Adinkras and the Nature of
> Reality (2010)" center image/adinkra is very visually similar to the viral
> "marriage equality" power symbol, was curious if there was any occult
> (sacred geometry?) reference work written about adinkras?
>
> The following 4min video explains the string theory equation behind this
> adinkra in this interview with S. James Gates, Jr. who serves on President
> Barack Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, a theoretical
> physicist, known for work on supersymmetry, supergravity, and superstring
> theory. He is currently the Professor of Physics at the University of
> Maryland: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp4NkItgf0E&feature=share
>
> "Symbols of Power" full journal article by Dr. S. James Gates, Jr. -
> http://www.onbeing.org/sites/onbeing.org/files/gates-symbolsofpower.pdf
>
> Thanks
>
>
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